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“We will try as hard as we can not to be a source of instability here," Janet Yellen said in response to questions about the Fed's communications strategy in her...

When the possibility of new jobs clashes with the desires of powerful campaign contributors, sometimes jobs can take priority. That may be what’s happening in Arizona, where a new bill in the state legislature would le...

One by one, Gilbert Hyatt pointed to the adding machine, the first-generation Sony PlayStation console, the television, the handheld video recorder and the telephone switching device arrayed on the conference-room table.

SEC gets earful over rule requiring companies to compare CEO pay with that of workersAlmost 1,000 "unique" letters have been sent to the Securities and Exchange Commission since September about the issue. An additional 1...

The strength of the coffee market among young adults is threatened by the increasing market share of sports and energy drinks among that group, the latest National Coffee Association (NCA) annual consumer survey said on ...

Anheuser-Busch and the International Brotherhood of Teamsters say they have reached a tentative deal on a five-year contract for workers at the beverage-maker's 12 U.S. breweries.

From the World Justice Project's annual Rule of Law survey, released in March, a look at the top 10 countries where justice prevails. The Project spoke with 1,000 people living in the three biggest cities in 99 countries...

Brunello Cucinelli, the Italian designer with a love for cashmere, is feeling chafed by his stock price with shares down 24 percent this year. To combat the flagging stock price,...

TEMPE, Ariz. (AP) -- Former President Bill Clinton said Saturday that the supercharged political environment makes cutting the government's long-term debt a difficult task -- and cited a recent Republican tax plan as a p...

Ian Bremmer, geopolitical expert and president of the Eurasia Group, doesn't believe sanctions against Russia will make much of a difference at all, telling NPR's Scott Simon on Saturday that despite the possibility of a...

A spokesman from MasterCard says it is investigating reports of a potential breach at the California Department of Motor Vehicles.

MASON, Mich. (AP) -- A federal appeals court issued an order Saturday preventing more same-sex couples from getting married in Michigan for at least several more days. The 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati ...

The Morpheus Project and the Oculus Rift, on display at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, are new systems fine-tuning virtual reality in video games.     

This week, we'll get some February economic reports that should give us a sense of how we've done in the wake of the unusually harsh winter. We'll also get an early

A fast-moving virus that has infected hogs across half of the nation since it was first detected in the U.S. less than a year ago has become rampant in Indiana, agriculture officials say.

Aided by a possible new lead that could point to the location of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, search teams continued to scour the southern Indian Ocean by air and sea on Sunday. The latest evidence comes from a third ...

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Eagles receiver DeSean Jackson is among several players the New York Jets have interest in, Jets owner Woody Johnson says.

Officials in the central Iowa town of Tama are optimistic that an idle beef processing plant will reopen soon and add hundreds of jobs.

According to the Utah Poison Control Center, the number of children under the age of 6 who have been sent to Utah hospitals after using electronic cigarettes is on the rise.

A report to state legislators says New London's police department does not comply with an updated anti-racial profiling law.

An energy company plans to begin production soon at an idled ethanol plant it has purchased at an Indiana port on the Ohio River, a spokesman said.